Word: minimum
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...class-size reduction initiatives from his fiscal 2000 budget request, are most significant because they place greater emphasis on school accountability. Under the plan, first unveiled in last month's State of the Union Address, school districts would receive federal funding only if they meet a certain level of minimum standards...
...report also found that the vast majority of teachers claimed they could have benefited from better training programs, more professional development and a degree in the subject they taught. In this light, Clinton's minimum standard to ensure teacher quality is almost intuitive: Teachers must be state-certified, pass a performance exam and possess a relevant college degree...
...defense will strongly argue that the ski lift cable was not marked on maps, while prosecutors will maintain that the pilot was obligated to fly at a minimum of 1,000 feet and the cable was hung at about 370 feet. "The prosecution's argument will be that yardsticks don't lie," says Thompson. Whatever the trial's outcome, many of Ashby's colleagues have already weighed the matter in their minds, and their judgment does not bode well for the pilot. "Many other Marine pilots have been angered by the accident and have concluded the crew was hot-dogging...
Today Mann, 28, is an inmate serving 10 years at Alderson Federal Prison Camp, a minimum-security facility tucked away in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia. Her story is common among the institution's nearly 800 women prisoners. "It's fairly simple," says Richard Russell, executive assistant at Alderson. "A lot of women here got sucked in with a boyfriend involved in drugs." More than 70% of the inmates at Alderson are, like Mann, first-time offenders convicted of nonviolent, drug-related crimes serving sentences ranging, in most cases, from 12 months to 14 years...
...ruckus over mandatory-minimum-sentencing laws, the sharp impact on first-time women offenders is stirring considerable debate. Since 1980 the number of women in state and federal prisons has tripled, to 78,000, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. A major reason is that women, generally small players in drug trafficking, don't possess enough information about the operation to plea-bargain sentence reductions. In many cases they simply refuse to snitch on loved ones and family members or to cooperate by wearing wiretaps or going undercover...